Social systems of power have impacted online spaces, which causes lateral violence in social justice movements. In the reading Digital Intersectionality Theory the authors discussed the ways social systems of power have impacted online spaces. In chapter 2 of The intersectional Internet the authors discussed how a white male academic who identify as “male feminist” attacked women of color for the work they do; while their white feminists counter parts turn a blind eye. Daniels How can they call themselves feminist? When one of their own contributors is involved in racist online attacks. Writer and pop culture analyst Mikki Kendall grew frustrated by the inaction of the white feminists that she created a hash tag #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen. Which made white feminists and activist lash out at Kendell. Kendell was merely calling out that one of their own who does feminist work as being problematic. Instead of admonishing the male she got the blow back. These are some of the ways that white feminist refuse to acknowledge their role in implicit whiteness. In the early days of the internet people thought they could escape the confines of gender and race. They were wrong. “Race and racism persist online, both in ways that are new and unique to the internet and alongside vestiges of centuries -old forms that reverberate significantly both offline and on. (Brock, 2006, 2009; Daniels, 2009, 2013). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daniels did three case studies one of them was a book by FB chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. Her book was widely discussed online by feminist bloggers. Her book Lean In is not just a book it is an online campaign. Sandberg discussed how women should assert themselves in work spaces that are dominated by males. That women are limiting themselves. Her book is problematic in several ways. She fails to account for race. Yes we are all women but our race dictates how we navigate in certain spaces. Her book is more for middle, upper class white women. What she articulates is liberal feminism that intersects with white privilege, class, colonialism and heteronormativity. She speaks about marriage in terms of cis-gender no mention of gay or lesbian relationships. As I stated before there is no mentions of women of color. Leaning in will look different to women who are not white. (pg46) Daniels <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Crenshaw writes”The failure of feminism to interrogate race means that the resistance strategies of feminism will often replicate and reinforce the subornation of people of color.” (Crenshaw, 1991, p.1252) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Noble, S. U., & Tynes, B. M. (2016). The intersectional Internet: race, sex, class and culture online<\/em>. New York (N.Y.): Peter Lang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For this weeks reading that I chose to summarized \u201cThe Social \nConstruction of Difference.\u201d I chose it because I can identify with the \nreading. Author Johnson discusses Americas social construct of gender, \nrace, class, and sexuality. One interesting point that struck out to me\n that was made by the late James Baldwin an African American novelist \nassertion that there is no such thing as whiteness. \u201cNo one is white \nbefore he\/she came to America he wrote. It took generations and a vast \namount of coercion, before this became white country.\u201d Baldwin Which \nbrings me to another point being made a woman in Africa considers \nherself African and has never experienced white racism. That is until \nshe comes to the United States. Where privilege, skin color and race is \nsocially constructed. Because she has dark skin she isn\u2019t seen as \nAfrican in the United states she is black. I identify with that as \nsomeone who is brown people assume I am just black. Johnson further goes\n on to discusses the mechanisms of privilege and difference and what \nthat looks like. Why is the word privilege such a loaded word for white\n people. People get upset when it is pointed out that they have \nprivileges that other groups don\u2019t get. He also discuss the varying ways\n privilege shows up daily. Some people do benefit from white privileges.\n For example a straight black woman can talk freely about her life her \nhusband and marriage. This is a form of heterosexual privilege someone \nwho is LGBTQ can not talk freely about their relationships like someone \nwho is heterosexual it can put them in danger. I am brown but I have \nheterosexual privilege. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources: 1) Adams, Maurianne, et al., editors. Readings for Diversity and Social Justice. 3 edition, Routledge, 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wikipedia Summary Avoiding Plagiarism<\/p>\n\n\n\n In your doing research and writing an essay for school one must be \nvery careful to not plagiarized someone else\u2019s work. Plagiarism can get\n you banned from Wikipedia if you are not careful. Plagiarism can show \nup in many ways. One of them is where you copy text and don\u2019t credit the\n author. Another form of plagiarism which is something I found \nsurprising. Copying text word for word and citing it is still consider \nplagiarism. But what I found out is that in academia the rules are not \nas strict with Wikipedia. Also don\u2019t close paraphrase even when it is \ncited. If you are going to paraphrase use your words and ideas. When you\n find information on Wikipedia you should put it in your own words. \nWhen in doubt always cite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Cited sources: Z\u00fa\u00f1iga text according to Wikipedia guidelines for avoiding plagiarism (Links to an external site.)<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Week 3 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\t\tPosted on October 20, 2019<\/a>Edit “Wikipedia and class readings”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n For this weeks reading I decided on to blog about Ch 64. Feminism: A\n Movement to End Sexist Oppression. (bell hooks ) I chose this reading \nbecause it highlighted the ways certain forms for feminism have \ncontributed to many forms of oppression. It asks the important question \nwhat does equality look like for everyone. Not everyone gets the same \nequality; that depending on your gender, race, class and sexuality it \ndictates how society will treat you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Not everyone is treated equally in that is why it is important to \ninclude an intersectionality view. The authors discussed people\u2019s views\n on what feminism means and why it is a disservice to lump everyone has \nthe same. \u201cMost people in the United States think of feminism or the \nmore commonly used term \u201d women\u2019s lib\u201d as a movement. that aims to make \nwomen the social equals of men. This broad definition, popularized by \nthe media and mainstream segments of the movement raises problematic \nquestions. Since men are not equals to white supremacist, capitalist\u2019 \npatriarchal class, structure, which men do women want to be equal to? Do\n women share a common vision of what equality means?\u201d Hooks (pg 360) The\n simple broad definition dismisses the factors of race, class, gender, \nand sexuality as I stated earlier before. White women are not quick to \ncall attention to race because they were not being affected by racism. \nWhile women who were non-white and lower social class, did not benefit \nfrom the women\u2019s liberation movement. They were seeing in their every \nday lives how the men in their family were oppressed. The factors need \nto be address in order for all to be equal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I was not surprised that some women have a hard time calling \nthemselves feminist. I was the same way due to its history. Like those \nbefore me that did this work. I did not want to be associated with a \nmovement that had racists undertones. I saw it mainly as a white women\u2019s\n movement. It was not until I got to college I understood what feminist \nmeant. I thought; just like in the reading that its \u201canything goes\u201d. In\n the reading this form of feminism is defined as apolitical in nature \nand tone. Most liberal women find this form of feminism to be appeasing \nwhich romanticizes the notion of personal freedom; which is a more \nacceptable than a definition that emphasizes radical political action. \n(pg 361) Hooks <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources cited: Adams, M., Blumenfeld, W. J., Catalano, D. C. J., \nDeJong, K. \u201cS., Hackman, H., Hopkins, L. E., \u2026 Z\u00fa\u00f1iga Ximena. (2018). Readings for diversity and social justice<\/em> (4th ). New York: Routledge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Social systems of power have impacted online spaces, which causes lateral violence in social justice movements. In the reading Digital Intersectionality Theory the authors discussed the ways social systems of power have impacted online spaces. 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